Real People (album)

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Real People
Real People cover
Studio album by Chic
Released June 30 1980
Recorded 1980
Genre Disco / Funk / R&B / Jazz / Samba
Length 37:03
Label Atlantic Records
Producer Nile Rodgers,
Bernard Edwards
Professional reviews
Chic chronology
Les Plus Grands Succès De Chic: Chic's Greatest Hits
(1979)		 Real People
(1980)		 Take It Off
(1981)
Alternate cover
Real People + Tongue In Chic 2003 reissue.
Real People + Tongue In Chic 2003 reissue.

Real People is the fourth studio album by American R&B band Chic, released on Atlantic Records in 1980, including the singles "Rebels Are We" (US R&B #10, Pop #61, July 1980) and "Real People" (#51 R&B, #79 Pop). The album was one of four to be written and produced by Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers in 1980, the other three being Sister Sledge's Love Somebody Today, Sheila and B. Devotion's King of the World including European hit single "Spacer", and Diana Ross' multiplatinum selling album diana which includes "Upside Down", "I'm Coming Out" and "My Old Piano". Chic's own album however peaked at #30 on the US Albums chart and #8 on the R&B chart, a modest commercial success in comparison both to the Diana Ross project and their previous albums - most likely due to the so called "anti-disco backlash".
The Real People album was transferred to compact disc and re-released by Atlantic Records/Warner Music in 1991.
Real People coupled with 1982's Tongue in Chic was digitally remastered and reissued by Wounded Bird Records in 2003.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All tracks written by Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers.
Side A:

  1. "Open Up" - 3:52
  2. "Real People" - 5:20 Listen (help·info)
  3. "I Loved You More" - 3:06
  4. "I Got Protection" - 6:22

Side B:

  1. "Rebels Are We" - 4:53 Listen (help·info)
  2. "Chip off the Old Block" - 4:56
  3. "26" - 3:57 Listen (help·info)
  4. "You Can't Do It Alone" - 4:39

[edit] Personnel

  • Alfa Anderson - vocals
  • Fonzi Thornton - vocals
  • Luci Martin - vocals
  • Michelle Cobbs - vocals
  • Bernard Edwards - bass guitar, vocals
  • Nile Rodgers - guitar
  • Tony Thompson - drums
  • Andy Schwartz - keyboards
  • Raymond Jones - keyboards
  • Sammy Figueroa - percussion
  • Valerie Haywood (The Chic Strings) - strings
  • Cheryl Hong (The Chic Strings) - strings
  • Karen Milne (The Chic Strings) - strings
  • Gene Orloff - conductor

[edit] Production

  • Bernard Edwards - producer for Chic Organization Ltd.
  • Nile Rodgers - producer for Chic Organization Ltd.
  • Bob Clearmountain - engineer
  • Lucy Laurie - assistant engineer
  • Jeff Hendrickson - assistant engineer
  • Garry Rindfuss - assistant engineer
  • Dennis King - mastering
  • All songs recorded and mixed at Power Station in New York.
  • Mastered at Atlantic Studios, N.Y.

[edit] US Singles

"Rebels Are We"

  • "Rebels Are We" (7" Edit) - 3:19 / "Open Up" 3:58 (Atlantic 7" 3665 June 13 1980)
  • "Rebels Are We" - 4:53 / "Rebels Are We" (7" Edit) - 3:19 (Atlantic promo 12" DMD 241, 1980)

"Real People"

  • "Real People" (7" Edit) - 3:45 / "Chip Off The Old Block" - 4:56 (Atlantic 3768, September 29, 1980)
  • "Real People" - 5:20 / "Real People" (7" Edit) - 3:45 (Atlantic promo 12" DMD 247, 1980)



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Chic (1977) · C'est Chic (1978) · Risqué (1979) · Les Plus Grands Succès De Chic: Chic's Greatest Hits (1979) · Real People (1980) · Take It Off (1981) · Soup For One (soundtrack) (1982) · Tongue in Chic (1982) · Believer (1983) · Chic-Ism (1992) · Chic Freak and More Treats (1996) · Live at the Budokan (1999) · A Night in Amsterdam (2006)
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